#18

#17

#16

"I tend to people watch everywhere I go."

#15

"I play american football in france and do the same things before a game. I always eat oatmeal with blueberries, bananas, and brown sugar. I always take 2 salt pills to help with cramps. I always tape my wrists with black duct tape. I always make 4 and a half liters of Gatorade and eat a part of a banana before and eat the rest during halftime."

#14

#13

 "I can't sit and watch TV without peeling the mascara off my eyelashes. I have a special way of doing it...I roll my lashes gently until the mascara is in a small ball and then I just slip it off."

#12

"While making PB&J I have to spread the peanut butter first. Otherwise I contaminate the peanut butter jar with jelly."

#11

"Uncleanliness and unevenness drives me nuts! If I see something that is even a slight bit uneven, my compulsion is to straighten it.....at all costs! This often occurs during conversations."

#10

#9

#8

"I check myself out everytime I walk past a window or shiney surface."

#7

#6

#5

"I cannot and will not finish the last bite of my toast, or the last swig of my OJ."

#4

"Whenever I leave the house, I have to go back inside to make sure I've turned the stove off. Sometimes I go back and check more than once."

#3

"I am unable to use any less than 4 Q-tips"

#2

"If someone places things in the wrong place, arrgh, I must reorganize!"

#1

The Project

Who are we? We are a small group of design students from Portland State University

Why are you here? Probably because we asked you to be! You are an interesting person with odd habits we would like to know about.

If we have not asked you, we are asking you now. 

What are you asking me?  We are requesting that you illustrate and briefly explain one of your very own strange and compulsive habits for a collaborative art project and social experiment whose purpose is to help us all to not feel like such weird-os. 

Are there stipulations?  Nope. Your entry does not have to be a masterpiece, but it can be. Your entry can be a photograph, a sketch, a painting, collage, digital design, newspaper clipping, found object, ANYTHING!!! 

There are no limits. 

We keep it anonymous, and all you have to do is send your habitual piece to us at: habitualyou@gmail.com

or postmark us at:

Habit Collectors

2204 N Skidmore Ct.

Portland, OR 97217

Keep tabs on this blog to watch a beautiful collection of odd habits accumulate.

And if you know others that would like to partake, spread the word! 

Word.

- Your Habit Collectors